Date Nut Bread

This Date Nut bread is a good family tradition from our Grandma Pat- and we're so thrilled our kids love it too. This good bread is packed with walnuts and sweet, rich, good dates, our son who is insanely picky can almost down an entire loaf by himself.

This bread is easy and uses a unique method- you don't need a stand mixer or anything fancy- a tea kettle! Yep… we're going to use some boiling water to help soften and plump the dates, as well as activate the baking soda.

At Avdaye, we add lots of tips in all of our recipes – because we are a home cook without any formal training, and we find we are more confident making dishes when we understand why it works, and what each ingredient means to the flavor of a recipe. Our goal is for even the most beginner home cook to feel empowered in the kitchen.

How to Make Quick and Easy Date Nut Bread

First assemble the following ingredients:

• 1 lb dates
• 2 tbsp butter
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 1 cup boiling water
• ½ tsp vanilla
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 cup flour
• 1 egg
• ½ cup chopped walnuts

Next use this Methods

Heat Dates

First, you'll mix the dates and baking soda and pour hot water over- let them sit until cool. This is to activate the dates and baking soda. It's a little bit of an odd step, but it produces easy results every time.

Mix

Mix ingredients and stir. Mixture will be slightly thick- not too runny. Don't add any additional water unless you cannot incorporate all of the ingredients in without it. This bread is quite gooey on it's own- adding too much water will make it a little unstable!

Bake

We like to cook it in a well-greased bundt pan- but you can also bake it in a loaf pan, muffin tins, or even a springform cake pan! We like to top warm bread out of the oven with a little powdered sugar sprinkled over it.

Kitchen notes

Gooey – We personally prefer to have our date nut bread slightly undercooked- a touch gooey- but our husband likes it done the full 45 minutes.

Morning Snack –This bread is good for breakfast, smeared with butter or cream cheese- or by itself. It's so good, you'll find yourself ready for another piece right away!

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Ingredients

• 1 lb dates
• 2 tbsp butter
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 1 cup boiling water
• ½ tsp vanilla
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 cup flour
• 1 egg
• ½ cup chopped walnuts

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. Place pitted, chopped dates into a large bowl with baking soda and butter.
3. Pour boiling water over dates, butter, and soda and let sit until cool.
4. Add vanilla, sugar, flour and egg, mix until well combined.
5. Stir in nuts.
6. Pour into well greased pan.
7. For bundt cakes loaf pans or large springform cakes, bake 45 minutes to 1 hour- when a toothpick inserted into the middle comes clean.
8. For muffins, bake 15-30 minutes until toothpick comes out clean.